Postgame Press Conference 8/31

I would think the punt return is coaching. Tell the kid plant your heels on the 10 and don’t go backwards. Do it once and you’re not returning kicks.

 

I think he was on tge 20 or so and the punter made a hell of a kick. I doubt he knew where he was and his inexperience led him to want to make that big play. In hs, he make juke five guys and make a big play, college not so much. The coaching error to me is letting a true freshman field a punt in the first place, especially one that was going to be anywhere near the goal one in the first place. Field position was more important on that play than a big return.

 

Yes we will

 

Balance the punt fielding with the 2 we let go that downed inside the 5. The punting game has evolved with the rugby kickers. Letting punts go when standing on the 10 or even 7 yard line have almost a 50% chance of being successfully downed.

You want to stop this, get your opponent of the field inside their own 40 yard line.

 

Great, reasonable, and accurate post.

 

Too many people on the sideline is the issue. Everyone thinks someone else has got it and ultimately nobody has it.

 

I don’t see CBN’s lack of emotional fire on the sidelines as being that impactful. NFL Hall of Fame coach Tom Landry was not emotional on the sidelines. He was fairly successful as a coach.

On the other hand, Gators did have a coach that some here loved to call Coach BOOM. We all know how that ended. Emotion from the coach in and of itself doesn’t win games.

 

Oh.

 

Looked like designed plays to me. No reads, that I saw. I’ll let you know if ever I have the stomach to go back and rewatch that

 

Somewhere in the middle of this and the people freaking out is the answer.

the swamp gonna be cooking next week and it’s the cupcake we need to get the game day reps in to avoid stupid stuff like false starts and alignment penalties.

 

What? Changing numbers mid game? That’s a real thing?

 

It is indeed.

 

Yes, it is. And I have probably watched, say, a thousand football games since it became a thing.

Now ask me how many times I have seen a team penalized for gooning it up, much less giving away a free first down and ultimately a TD.

 

Pretty much everything that could go wrong went wrong last nite. Maybe we got some of that out of our system in a non-conference opener against a better team. I can hope

 

You can indeed. Hoping right there with you.

 

Just hoping we don't repeat those mistakes.

 

Me too Miko

 

Why do we keep making excuses for why we put an inferior product on the field? 2 straight losing seasons. One under CDM which we attribute to poor recruiting and the second to poor recruiting under the previous regime and a new coaching staff. Whatever ranking we had for the last several years it wasn’t consistently lower than Vandy, Ky and Mizzou. Somehow they beat us with inferior talent, supposed lesser coaches and lesser facilities. It’s time to stop with this nonsense. There is no accountability. We opened up the vault and have dozens of coaches, trainers and advisors. Results and progress are the only things that we should be willing to accept and I’m not seeing it. Other than recruiting I don’t think we are any better off than we were a year ago. In fact we might be worse.

 

Nebraska did it against Miami in the '84 Orange Bowl. I think the guy who changed numbers picked Bernie off and he and Howard Schnellenberger got all bent out of shape over it because they felt like Tom Osborne was resorting to bush league trickery to win, which they didn't anyway.

 

I said almost the same thing before the game.
“Your recipe for disaster” fits. A whole new offensive line, what could go wrong. Slow play calling and no urgency from the coaches will keep us behind most games. The play calling with everybody in motion, no one to block, ten defensive players near the line of scrimmage, CBN doesn’t appear to be able to get any consistency out of any offense. It worried me last year and now we see nothing has changed. Stubborn coaches who try to be the headcoach and a coordinator most times don’t see the problems of a team as a whole. Another losing season and hoping to turn it around, aren’t what we need. Billy should let someone who has been a good OC run the offense. The special teams are a complete disaster. Catching the ball “twice” inside the ten yard line, waving fair catch, once is a dumb mistake, two, whoever coaches the special teams should be fired. As for our defense, a third team QB setting them up for twenty four points, well we still couldn’t get a sack. Tennessee, Georgia, LSU will get as much yardage as they want, probably FSU also. Think General Sherman rampaging through Atlanta, young hires hoping for the best without an offense that can get a lead early in a game. We are now locked into mediocracy.
Poor hiring strategies have handcuffed the football program, not firing coaches that can’t make good personnel decisions and a that’s the proper hire cover, has brought the Gators to everybody’s homecoming wish list, including Vandy. This wait and giving away the program. Former head coaches that were successful, should be the AD and assisted by ticket managers and politicians on the side. We have run the football program down to being the talk of college football’s loser programs. Not happy to be humiliated, week after week.